Ivo Brosens

No ORCID on file · 173 papers in corpus · active 1978-2021

Study types

  • article 77
  • review 49
  • book-chapter 21
  • letter 15
  • other 9

Condition tags

  • endometriosis 117
  • mesh:D004715 97
  • adenomyosis 30
  • infertility 22
  • endometrioma 18
  • die_deep_infiltrating 6
  • dysmenorrhea 6
  • bowel_endometriosis 3
  • mesh:D017699 2
  • chronic_pelvic_pain 2
article 2021
·doi:10.3390/reprodmed2040018

Bleeding in newborns and young girls fascinated writers for more than a millennium. Initially, there was confusion between neonatal bleeding, early menstruation due to precocious puberty, and hemorrhage due to disease. During the 19th centu…

book-chapter 2021
·doi:10.1017/9781108582322.011

Classically endometriosis develops sometime after menarche and has been reported in girls as early as 10 years. There is limited knowledge about early-onset endometriosis, particularly about disease progression and its effect on fertility. …

review 2021
Biomedicine hub ·doi:10.1159/000512663

OBJECTIVE: Based on the hypothesis that neonatal uterine bleedings (NUB), occurring mostly in the first week after birth, could represent a pathogenetic mechanism for early-onset endometriosis, this systematic review (SR) was undertaken to …

review 2021
·doi:10.6084/m9.figshare.13603076

Objective: Based on the hypothesis that neonatal uterine bleedings (NUB), occurring mostly in the first week after birth, could represent a pathogenetic mechanism for early-onset endometriosis, this systematic review (SR) was undertaken to …

review 2020
Reproductive biomedicine online ·doi:10.1016/j.rbmo.2020.01.017
book-chapter 2020
·doi:10.1007/978-3-030-52984-0_18
review 2019
Gynecologic and obstetric investigation ·doi:10.1159/000499019

BACKGROUND: We reviewed published cases of uterus-like mass (U-LM), endomyometriosis, polypoid adenomyoma (PA), adenomyomatous polyp, atypical PA (APA), and adenomyoma. SEARCH METHODS: PubMed, Medline, and Scopus searches of all cases publi…

review 2018
Gynecologic and obstetric investigation ·doi:10.1159/000487320

To confirm the origin of cancer found in both the endometrium and the myometrium is difficult. Cancer may spread from the endometrium into adenomyotic foci or vice versa. Also, premalignant changes may arise at either or both sites. Investi…

review 2018
Reproductive sciences (Thousand Oaks, Calif.) ·doi:10.1177/1933719118773441

INTRODUCTION AND HYPOTHESIS: We reviewed reported cases of endocervicosis, endosalpingiosis, and müllerianosis of the bladder or ureters in women in order to highlight these conditions as distinct from endometriosis or adenomyosis. METHODS…

review 2018
Reproductive biomedicine online ·doi:10.1016/j.rbmo.2017.09.015

Increasing evidence indicates that early onset endometriosis (EOE), starting around menarche or early adolescence, may have an origin different from the adult variant, originating from neonatal uterine bleeding (NUB). This implies seeding o…

letter 2018
Human Reproduction ·doi:10.1093/humrep/dey016
review 2017
Gynecologic and obstetric investigation ·doi:10.1159/000468933

BACKGROUND: Spontaneous hemoperitoneum in pregnancy (SHiP) is a rare, life-threatening event, particularly relevant to women with endometriosis or deciduosis. METHODS: To determine the type of lesions leading to SHiP, a literature search wa…

article 2017
·doi:10.5301/je.5000267

There continues to be debate over the nature and progression of ovarian endometriomas in adolescence due to the possibility that they may have a different origin and to the impossibility to be able to predict progress. The hypothesis of a d…

book-chapter 2017
·doi:10.1201/9781315151472-10

This chapter discusses the diagnosis, molecular aspects of adenomyosis, its contributions to pain and infertility and poor pregnancy outcomes, and medical and surgical therapeutic options. Over the past 25 years, the diagnosis of adenomyosi…

other 2017
Minerva ginecologica ·doi:10.23736/S0026-4784.16.03919-8

As of today, there is no proof that the ovarian endometrioma in an adolescent represents a progressive condition, although evidence is accumulating that active management of this phenotype of endometriosis is warranted. Indeed, although sym…

review 2017
Fertility and sterility ·doi:10.1016/j.fertnstert.2017.08.036

The pathophysiology of (deep) endometriosis is still unclear. As originally suggested by Cullen, change the definition "deeper than 5 mm" to "adenomyosis externa." With the discovery of the old European literature on uterine bleeding in 5%-…

review 2017
·doi:10.1080/17512433.2017.1356718

Introduction: The pharmacodynamic effects of various combined oral estrogen-progestin combinations (COC) are examined for their components alone or in the various combined formulations. Special emphasis is given to products containing natur…

review 2017
Gynecological endocrinology : the official journal of the International Society of Gynecological Endocrinology ·doi:10.1080/09513590.2016.1259408

Neonatal uterine bleeding (NUB) has been carefully studied in the past through case reports, small series, clinical cohort studies, pathology investigations of fetal and neonatal. Following a historical recount, this review summarizes biolo…

review 2017
European journal of obstetrics, gynecology, and reproductive biology ·doi:10.1016/j.ejogrb.2017.10.012
review 2016
Reproductive biomedicine online ·doi:10.1016/j.rbmo.2016.03.001
letter 2016
Fertility and sterility ·doi:10.1016/j.fertnstert.2016.10.010
review 2016
The journal of maternal-fetal & neonatal medicine : the official journal of the European Association of Perinatal Medicine, the Federation of Asia and Oceania Perinatal Societies, the International Society of Perinatal Obstetricians ·doi:10.1080/14767058.2016.1216540

Neonatal uterine bleeding (NUB) occurs in approximately 5% of newborns and is generally considered to be of little clinical significance. However, the real clinical importance of this condition and its long-term implications remain to be de…

review 2016
Reproductive sciences (Thousand Oaks, Calif.) ·doi:10.1177/1933719116637919
review 2016
Expert opinion on pharmacotherapy ·doi:10.1080/14656566.2016.1229305

INTRODUCTION: Treatment of ovarian endometriomas is commonly achieved through laparoscopic surgery and this can be effective in eliminating the disease, although a majority of recent trials documented an adverse effect of surgery on ovarian…

article 2016
Women's health (London, England) ·doi:10.2217/whe-2016-0006